John Christian Boode only son of Andrew Christian of Amsterdam Holland, arm., matriculated Oriel College 13/05/1824 aged 18; m. Clementina-Elizabeth-Mary [daughter of Admiral Sir Henry William Bayntun, 'sole representative' of the Werden of Leyland family] 06/06/1835: one daughter Christine Ellen Lydia Boode (born abt 1835) m. John Hippisley junior 1863 and another, Constance Ellen Susette, married Benjamin Winthrop. J.C. Boode, who was born in Amsterdam c. 1807, was party to a messy case of adultery in the 1840s. At his death on 01/02/1870 he left £50,000 in personalty.

Will of Andreas Christian Boode of Colerne Wiltshire proved 17/12/1844. In the will he said that he had transferred £30,000 in 3% consolidated annuities to his daughter Phoebe on her marriage to Isaac William [sic] Webb Horlock in full satisfaction of her claims on his estate (including the plantation Groote & Klyne Uitvlugt) which he left to his son John Christian Boode, with the exception of two legacies of £2500 to each of his daughter Phoebe's children by her second marriage, John Baker Dawson and Phoebe Dawson.

Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]; John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (4 vols., London, Henry Colburn, 1835-1838), vol. 4, p. 332, Werden of Leyland (which gives John Christian's father as 'John Alexander Boode' of Lucknam House; Times 08/05/1847 p. 8; National Probate Calendar 1870. Two men named 'Benjamin Winthrop' appear in William D. Rubinstein, Who were the rich? A biographical dictionary of British wealth-holders Volume 1 1809-1839 (London, Social Affairs Unit, 2009) reference 1809/20 and ibid., Volume 2, reference 1847/38: J.C. Boode's son-in-law was presumably the third generation Benjamin Winthrop.

PROB 11/2008/202.

We are grateful for the assistance of Paul Koulen and Stanley R. Criens with this entry.

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